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by md81544 6549 days ago
It's surely invevitable - if a "good" can easily be replicated exactly then its value plummets inexorably to zero.

The interesting question is how this will change our concepts when /material/ goods go down the same route. We already have very crude 3-D printers. Eventually we'll have 3-D "photocopiers". Imagine what will happen to, say, the luxury goods market then, when you can say to your friend, "can I copy your Rolex"?